[bksvol-discuss] Re: Credit Suggestion

Yes, the symbols for the fractions do not show up well at all on a
display. Neither do bullets.

Andromache

P.S. How do those with no Braille display do proofing? Set the screen
reader to all punctuation? I prefer Braille, because I like tactile
feedback and much prefer to see words than to be read to. Also helps to
keep my spelling skills sharp. But I find that all punctuation is a very
distracting way to read.

On 5/7/2010 5:35 AM, Debby Franson wrote:

Hi Jill and everyone!

Whenever I have submitted a cookbook, I have made sure all fractions
are correct. I have wondered how accurate other Bookshare cookbooks
were until joining this list when I have found that many volunteers
take care to correct the scanos, since fractions are usually horrible
for OCR to get right.

The first cookbook I downloaded years ago was "The I Hate to Cook"
cookbook. The fractions were not written as 1/2 and 1/4 but the
higher ASCII characters for those fractions, so, unless I was left' or
right-arrowing over those fractions, Window-Eyes ignored them
entirely, so I hope that people always use the 1/2 and 1/4 form of the
fractions so they are read rather than ignored by synthetic speech..
I suspect those higher ASCII characters don't show up well on a
braille display either. Am I right? Here they are to test:

¼ ½
Debby
At 09:46 PM 5/6/2010, Jill O'Connell wrote

I hope you sent your suggestion to the volunteer coordinator where it
might possibly do some good. It is really disappointing to download a
recipe book and find it virtually unreadable.

If only the outsourcers did as fine a job as many of the scanners
and proofers on this list. I don't know how many books I've read,
that were done by the outsourcers, that were poorly done. I do make
quality reports when warranted. Not to mention the fact that, I was
told a few months ago by Bookshare staff, that the outsourcers
wouldn't be working on any more cookbooks.

Melissa Smith
On 5/6/2010 5:31 PM, Jamie Yates, CPhT wrote:

One idea is to let the more complicated books be handled by
staff/outsourcers.

--
Jamie in Michigan
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Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have. Just
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